Ban air fresheners in public places, stores and hotels. End forever chemicals from laundry pollution. These Endocrine disrupting chemicals are forcing an increasing percentage of people to stay locked away from public places to avoid pain and suffering. Please don’t let companies hide toxic chemicals in their scents and fragrances. Please make them illegal before it’s too late.
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Steinemann A, Ten questions concerning air fresheners and indoor built environments, Building and Environment, Volume 111, 2017,
Pages 279-284, ISSN 0360-1323, Redirecting.
Article Link: Ten questions concerning air fresheners and indoor built environments - ScienceDirect
“This article investigates the seeming paradox that products designed to improve the indoor environment can pose unintended and unknown risks. It examines the science, health, and policy perspectives, and provides recommendations and research directions.”
“Air fresheners can contribute to indoor hazardous air pollutants, both through direct emissions and secondary reaction products… Within buildings and other indoor environments, the use of air fresheners has a strong association with high indoor levels of terpenes, benzene, toluene, ethyl-benzene, m,p-xylene, and total
volatile organic compounds…”
“Air fresheners can contribute to human exposure to primary and secondary air pollutants… Air freshener exposures, even at low levels, have been associated with a range of adverse health effects, which include migraine headaches, asthma attacks, breathing difficulties, respiratory difficulties, mucosal symptoms,
dermatitis, infant diarrhea and earache, neurological problems, and ventricular fibrillation…”
“In addition to population based studies, specific air freshener chemicals (VOCs such as acetaldehyde, SVOCs such as phthalates, and ultrafine particles) emitted from air fresheners have been associated with adverse effects to the neurological, cardiovascular, respiratory, reproductive, immune, and endocrine systems,
and with cancer. For instance, acetaldehyde, which can be both a primary and secondary emission from air fresheners, is associated with both acute and chronic hazards to the respiratory system, and classified as a carcinogenic hazardous air pollutant in the US…"